This week, LittleSis had booked off of work for vacation. But instead of doing fun things with her 18-month-old son, HMan, she volunteered to come and stay with us, to help after the c-section. She’s been doing most of the cooking and meal planning and cleanup, as well as taking our older two kids to the park every day and colouring with them and playing games with them and generally being awesome. I am so grateful to her that I can’t really think about it too much, as my milk is in and I’m all hormonal and thinking about how great she has been only leads to crying jag number 345 of the last four days.
FameThrowa has also been fantastic, coming over almost every evening to clean our kitchen, and make muffins and other snacks, and to do our grocery shopping. Tonight she’s coming over to make dinner for everyone, and now I’m on to crying jag number 346.
Last night my mom arrived in town, with my grandmother, SocialButterly, and SocialButterfly’s two teenaged kids. They’re staying at a hotel to make things easier on us but still are helping as much as they can with the child care around here. I’m so moved that everyone rushed in to help out, and although it’s really really hard for me to just sit around watching Tour De France coverage while everyone else works, I contribute as much as I can through grateful crying.
The coolest part is that it has been a few years since me and my three sisters were all in the same place at the same time. Plus, this is the first time ever that all of my mom’s grandchildren have been together in the same place. Of course there are the usual family squabbles associated with a big reunion, but I’m just so happy to have everyone here that I believe it is time for crying jag number 347.
TurtleHead 
What can I say? We all love you so very much that there is no job big or small that we won’t do in order to make your life easier. Helping you makes us happy!
I’m ready to take on dinner and clean-up tonight as if it was an ultimate play-off game. Bring it on!
You asked me in another post what I would recommend for getting back on your feet quickly, and my first thought was “get lots of help from other people. Don’t do anything yourself that you can get someone else to do.” However, I didn’t want to say this in case you didn’t have a lot of people to help out, and have my advice result in crying jag number 348.
I’m so happy to hear that there’s no shortage of people to help you. Now you need to just kick back and let your incision heal while you watch tonnes of TdF and DVDs and read a book or two.
Don’t feel guilty about other people doing stuff for you because you seriously shouldn’t be lifting, bending, etc. I think some doctors tell you not to drive, but I did and it was fine. I’d drive to the grocery store and my mom would lift all the heavy groceries.
Btw, I think you’ll know that you’re pretty much healed when your family drives you completely nuts! Until then, enjoy their company and help…